Grapat - The Pendulum

The Pendulum is a balance board paired with a collection of wooden pieces. Children stack and arrange the pieces on the board to find a point of balance, make the board spin, or test how weight and placement change its motion. The set combines physical play with hands on experimentation.

Children challenge themselves to find the perfect balance, make the board spin, or experiment with the pieces to see how motion works. Because there are no fixed rules, each attempt is a small experiment in weight, position and movement, offering many ways to test skills and curiosity.

The set invites children to explore concepts of physics through their own hands, feeling how balance, weight and motion interact. Arranging the pieces to keep the board level or to make it spin builds patience, fine motor control and an intuitive sense of cause and effect.

Yes. The board and wooden pieces have no single correct outcome, so children set their own challenges. They might build a balanced tower, test how far the board tilts, or explore spinning, returning to the set again and again with new ideas each time.

Grapat is a small family run workshop in Catalonia, Spain, making natural wooden toys mostly from beech and birch sourced locally from sustainable forests. Its pieces are finished with water based, non toxic dyes and vegetable oils and presented in sustainable eco friendly packaging.

Yes. As an open set of wooden pieces, the Pendulum can be combined with other Grapat loose parts, coins and rings for more balancing and building options. Mixing sets adds variety to the shapes and weights a child can experiment with. Browse more in our Grapat loose parts collection.

The pieces are handmade and hand finished, so small differences in grain, tone and shape are normal. These natural variations come from the workshop process rather than any fault, and they also mean each piece can balance a little differently, adding to the challenge.